Ahhh, “the national interest”, let’s quickly check this source on wikipedia:

In 2015, Maria Butina, who was later in 2018 convicted as a Russian spy, wrote an editorial in the magazine titled “The Bear and the Elephant” stating that only by electing a president from the Republican Party could the United States and Russia improve relations.

Writing in Politico, journalist James Kirchick argued in 2016 while commenting on Donald Trump’s Russian relationships that The National Interest and its parent company “are two of the most Kremlin-sympathetic institutions in the nation’s capital, even more so than the Carnegie Moscow Center.”

Yeah, that basically checks out. They certainly seem to take the Russian “information” at face value, doing basically no further research.